Category: State News

Gubernatorial hopeful Chris Jones on Tuesday called for increasing Arkansas teacher salaries, following a push by fellow Democrats to put teacher pay raises on the agenda for a legislative session next month.

A federal judge on Monday moved the trial from Sept. 6 to Dec. 12.

A 5-year-old Arkansas boy fatally shot his 8-year-old brother in what investigators believe was an accidental shooting with an unsecured gun.

Stark political divides among the states on abortion, gun rights and other issues threatened to overshadow a meeting this week of the nation’s governors.

Higher-than-normal ozone levels could cause health problems for some residents in east Arkansas on Thursday, officials said.

Jimmie Lou Fisher, who served as Arkansas’ state treasurer for more than two decades and was the Democratic nominee for governor in 2002, has died, an Arkansas funeral home said. She was 80.

Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has joined the incoming ownership group for the Denver Broncos, which is being led by Rob Walton, the eldest son of Walmart founders Sam and Helen Walton.

An Arkansas lottery ticket worth $1 million was sold at a gas station in Bryant, but the winner has yet to claim the prize.

The family of a man who was fatally shot near an Arkansas hospital while trying to drive away in a stolen truck filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against the officer who shot him and several others.

Arkansas ended its fiscal year with a record $1.6 billion budget surplus, state finance officials announced Tuesday.

The Federal Trade Commission said Tuesday that it has sued Walmart for allegedly allowing its money transfer services to be used by scam artists.

Hours after Friday’s ruling, Attorney General Leslie Rutledge signed certification that Roe had been overturned.